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It is sunday, january 10, and we are going to begin with your calls and comments and stories important to you. Open phones for the first half hour of todays washington journal. Then, we turn our attention to the Iowa Caucuses three weeks away and the New Hampshire primary just a month away. Four democrats, 2027488001 for republicans. Or independents, 2027488002 cspanwjd us a tweet or redoes on facebook. Jonathan martin is writing this morning, front page of the New York Times. I story about splits among classes in the Republican Party. It begins with these words. The Republican Party is facing...

I think we have about 10 minutes, a little bit longer. All right. My question will be brief. My name is andrew bowl, a sophomore in the school of foreign service. Given your relationship with the president over the last eight years, what is something that you most admire about barack obama . You know, i think what i most admire is hes willing to take risks. I mean its a version of things ive said a couple times, but i remember we were i was talking to him after the first meeting he had with raul castro in panama, and that whole thing had gone well because it wasnt as cuba like the whole hemisp...

The woman who if you do know her, you know that this particular case, george davis case was not just work for. The people involved her family. I want to introduce you to win the. Hmm. [applause] as i was mulling what to say, one of the most quoted phrase is sprang loud and clear. Pardon my voice. One phrase rang loud and clear. He who had saved a life have saved the world. I cannot think of a family that has done more to save the world than the davis family. [applause] for some 20 years they fought relentlessly to prevent troys execution, and for 20 years they succeed, but they did far more th...

Game over, you lose. Look, i understand the political virtue of making that argument. Its always good to convince those who disagree with you to just give up their beliefs. Sometimes those of us on this side of the aisle oblige by doing so. But its not an argument that has any basis in the constitution. Is obamacare currently the loft land . Of course. Its passed into law, some statute books. No one on this side of the aisle is arguing that its not. Were arguing that it shouldnt be. Thats a very different thing than saying its not. And congress has the power of the purse. Congress has the powe...